Should Chinatowns in America be torn down?

[Major Hogwash]

125. Of course not!

Boise had a rather large Chinatown section here about 100 years ago.
In fact, the most interesting aspects of the history of Garden City is mostly about the Chinese that immigrated here after the railroads were done being built in the West.

Garden City is a small community that successfully fought against being annexed by Boise, so as Boise grew, they wound up being surrounded by the City of Boise.
Yet, the pictures of Garden City from the 1940s and 1950s are wonderful historic pictures because the Chinese that lived there planted flowers in the 10-foot wide median strip that ran down the middle of the main street and separated the 2 lanes of the boulevard that ran the length of that city.
That little community looked like Paris or something in the springtime because those pictures from that time period are so beautiful when the flowers were in full bloom.

The Chinese had a major section of town located right in the middle of downtown Boise that they settled in, as well, at the turn of the century.
Located on some of the most prime property in Boise, near the Capitol building, right on Main Street.
While other real estate developers chose to develop building out of that section of Boise because the land surrounding the town was much cheaper to develop, the Chinese built up that area and it was very common to see several dozen Chinese walking down the sidewalks in Downtown every single day of the week in Boise.
They were shopping, conducting business, going to restaurants, etc.

The history of the diversity of the City of Boise is what saved this city from being dragged into the over-the-top racism that was so prevalent in the Northern part of the state back in the 1980s while the town was struggling to grow into a city.